tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221729.post6666477120408592335..comments2018-01-23T19:59:23.524-05:00Comments on Farm Aid: Around the Kitchen Table: Farm Aid says Goodbye to Al KrebsEmily Eagannoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221729.post-90004239405677046052007-10-29T15:37:00.000-04:002007-10-29T15:37:00.000-04:00Al Krebs was a friend of mine, and if you care abo...Al Krebs was a friend of mine, and if you care about where your food comes from, or our democracy, a friend of yours. Al connected the dots between economic and political democracy. He understood that our democracy depends on well educated and involved citizens' willingness to keep the anti-democratic concentrated power of corporations at bay. Too much economic power is not only bad economic policy, it runs counter to the Jeffersonian concept of widespread political power which included long time stakeholders like family farmers. No one person in America has done more to track corporate concentration in the food economy over a longer period of time than Al Krebs. He had the highest of journalistic and research standards, yet was an advocate for family farms and consumers. Through his research, we come to understand the illusion of choice when we go to the supermarket. Al showed me more than once the many different company labels that were all owed by the same parent company. I learned to never be in a hurry when I took Al along to go grocery shopping. We owe him more than we can ever hope to repay. Thank you Al Krebs for the power of positive example, which is the only real kind of leadership that ever works. Al Krebs showed us all how to be a citizen in our democracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com